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PFE Switcher 1048 Photo courtesy of Craig Walker. Pacific Fruit Express NW2 No. 1048 began life as Union Pacific 1048. It is seen here at the PFE shops in Tucson, Arizona, on September 12, 1981. Russell Eslick photograph. Bob Chaparro Moderator

PFE Reefers At Villa Park Orchards Packing House A post by Don Golde on Flickr. Description: At least seven PFE reefers on the SP on the old Tustin Branch spotted at the Villa Park Orchards orange packing facility at Villa Park, CA sometime in mid-May 1975. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Train On A Crate Label A post by David Eck. He comments: Economy Brand Lemon Crate Label. Red Ball grade fruit. Grown on the McNally Ranch in La Mirada, Los Angeles County, California. Printed by Western Lithograph in July 1933. Why is this scantily clad woman on the label? I guess someone had to pull the curtain back so we could see the buildings and orchards of McNally Ranch. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Sunkist Grower Sign A post from the Facebook History of Corona group. Description & Comments: Sunkist - Orange Heights Association Haven’t been able to find the exact location of this grove in Corona. That said, E.H. Wallace and his wife lived at 824 Belle St. (Where the hospital is now), were members of the Christian church and in 1946 Eldridge ‘E.H’ Wallace passed away. It was fairly common for citizens of Corona to own small citrus groves and then pool with other grove owners of the Orange Heights Association to distribute their oranges and lemons. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Fontana Citrus Lands - 1915 A post by David Eck. Description: Newspaper ad for Fontana Citrus Lands - 1915 This ad appeared in the Rialto Record on February 26, 1915. The company is offering land suitable for citrus growing. This land includes water right which are absolutely critical to raising citrus in hot, dry Southern California. The ad makes it sound pretty much perfect. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Santa Fe Texas Locos With Reefer Block A post by Taylor Rush on the Facebook From the Album group. Description: Shaking the ground as they storm towards the photographer at thirty miles per hour with eighty-seven cars in tow are a pair of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 5011 class "Texas" locomotives, number 5015 and 5025. The gigantic oil-burning 2-10-4 machines were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1944 and carried construction numbers 70821 and 70831. Designed for dual-service, these superpower behemoths rolled on 74" drivers that transferred 108,961 pounds of tractive effort to the rails. They were fitted with roller bearings on all axles, sporting a cast-steel bed with integrated cylinders, a Worthington 6-SA feedwater heater, Walschaerts valve gear with lightweight rods, and nearly 6,000 cylinder horsepower. The extra freight was captured near Abo, New Mexico on October 5, 1947. Four of the class have been preserved. Number 5011 at the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Missouri, number 5017 at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, number 5021 at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California, and number 5030 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Original photo taken by R. H. Kindig. Bob Chaparro Moderator

S Brand Lemon Crate Label A post by David Eck. He comments: Grown & Packed by Rancho Sespe in Sespe, Ventura County, California. Printed by Schmidt Lithograph, Los Angeles. Circa 1910s. Sespe was a small community in Ventura County near the Santa Clara River. By the 1890s, it had a post office, school and railroad station. Local backers hoped it would become the area's primary town. This didn't happen. The nearby city of Fillmore grew and eventually overshadowed little Sespe and the town declined. Little of the town of Sespe remains. Bob Chaparro Moderator

PFE Icing Platform – Yuma, Arizona A photo from a 1927 Yuma Chamber of Commerce publication. Thanks to Don Gray for the tip. Bob Chaparro Moderator

SP Reefer Block - Arizona A photo from a column by The Rogue Columnist. Description: Heavy-duty Southern Pacific steam power is in charge of this train of reefers carrying Salt River produce. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Tustin Orange Packing House Employees A post by David Eck. Description: Tustin Orange Packing House Employees, circa 1910 The whole crew has turned out for this photograph, including four horses who help haul crates from the groves to the packing house. On the far left, behind the automobile, are two gentlemen. I bet the car belongs to the man on the left. I also imagine he is the owner of the packing house. This packing house was located near the Southern Pacific Railroad depot on Newport Avenue between Laguna Road and Main Street in Tustin. Photo from the Orange County Public Library. Bob Chaparro Moderator

SFRD 8987 (Rr-43) Description: Reefer serving as a storage shed next to a corral on a Kern County, California, ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. My Notes: Class Rr-43 ice bunker reefer from Series 8600-9132. 534 cars. Other Rr-43 series were 9133-9144. 9135-9367 and 9368-9369. All four series (770 car total) rebuilt in 1947 from Classes Rr-X through Rr4. Fishbelly underframes were carried over from the original USRA-style design. When rebuilt the car kept its reverse-opening hatch covers. Notice this car at some point after the rebuilding received conventional-opening hatch covers, that is, the hatch covers opened towards the center of the car rather than over the ends. This car also received a sliding plug door at some point after the rebuilding. SFRD 9133, 9144 9368 and 9369 were the only cars that received sliding plug doors in the 1947 rebuilding program. The late Richard Hendrickson stated the Santa Fe equipped all new and rebuilt SFRD cars with sliding plug doors beginning with the Rr-48 class in 1950 and also retrofitted to many earlier Santa Fe cars in the 1950s. Between 1959 and 1961 the Rr-43 fleet dropped from 736 cars to 467. There were 213 cars in 1968, 112 in 1971 and 14 in 1973. 1973 was the year that the ICC permitted discontinuance of bunker icing for refrigerator cars. The railroads no longer were required to re-ice reefers in transit on their lines. This meant that large reefer fleet operators such as PFE and Santa Fe no longer could rely on other railroads to re-ice interchanged reefers. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Model: PFE 71117 (R-40-4) A post by Thomas Highberger on the Facebook Prototype Accurate Model Freight Cars group. He comments: Old Silver Streak PFE Reefer (HO) I built awhile back! Bob Chaparro Moderator

Haight Fruit Company - Redlands A post from the Facebook All About Redlands group. Bob Chaparro Moderator ++++ History of Haight Fruit Company The Mitten Building 345 North Fifth Street. Lon G. Haight, one of the sons of Ira C. Haight and president/manager of the Haight Fruit Company, had this fine brick building erected on Fifth Street in Redlands in 1890. Both Lon and his father arrived in Redlands in 1882 and immediately became involved in fruit packing but President Harrison appointed Ira postmaster in 1899, causing him to be less involved in the fruit industry. As this was the first packinghouse constructed in Redlands, it was used by the Redlands Orange Growers’ Association, which was one of the first collective marketing operations in Southern California. The brands of oranges the company introduced were the Poppy, Chief and Moon according to Illustrated Redlands (1897). Described as one of the “most monumental (buildings) in Redlands”, this 9” thick-walled two-story red brick rectangular building standing alone next to the railroad tracks measures 72 feet by 120 feet. The roof is gabled with a steep parapet on both ends of the building. It is decorated with piers, which begin as part of the concrete foundation and then become brick pilasters, which extend almost to the top of the front and back facades. Remarkably, although not visible from the exterior, these concrete piers provide the foundation for the huge solid redwood timbers, which are holding the roof up. Thus, the brick exterior walls are not supporting the roof of corrugated metal. In 1929 the building became the Jones Cider & Vinegar Company factory and then passed to Frank S. and Mary Mitten in 1938. Their son, Frank J. Mitten, used the building to manufacture, store and ship unique ceramic display letters, which were primarily used in department stores and other business endeavors across the nation to identify and promote their wares. He expanded the building toward the south in 1944 with a 5400 square foot addition called the “Summerbell Room” for the beautiful wooden bow trussed roof; now Thatcher Engineering. This is where Frank J. Mitten had an apartment once he relocated his business to New York but retained the Redlands building for the manufacturing of his letters. He also added a machine shop on the back, which is now The Boiler Room bar. The building remained in Mitten’s hands until 1985 but then fell into disrepair. In 1987 the City officially designated the structure an “historical resource.” Six partners, designated as Poppy Chief and Moon Group but better known as Bob Clark, Mark Gordon, Eric Munson, John Goddard, Craig Chamberlain and Leon Armantrout, bought the building in 1998 from Scott Plastics of Florida, who acquired it as part of their purchase of Frank J. Mitten’s letter business. It had sat abandoned for several years and was threatened by demolition plans and a fire started by transients. The Redlands Conservancy, dedicated to the preservation of historic buildings and other features of the community, gathered a group of volunteers to clean out and board up the building. Then they found the group of investors to purchase the building. Today the building’s effective adaptive re-use is apparent. The building has been brought up to current codes including fire sprinklers, electrical, lighting, heating and cooling systems, plumbing and seismic retrofit. A new parking lot has been created on the southerly portion of the property and the site has been landscaped. The Redlands Area Historical Society thanks Poppy Chief and Moon Group for their stewardship in maintaining this remarkable building for future generations of Redlanders to enjoy. Additionally, we commend the Redlands Conservancy’s vision to “demonstrate the positive economics of keeping our historic and architecturally significant buildings” for the future. Researched and written by Judith Hunt REDLANDS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. From Jim Lancaster’s packing house website: The Haight Fruit Company was the first packing house in Redlands. The packing house was built in 1

Model: PFE 2878 (R-30-2) A post by Michael Stamey on the Facebook Prototype Accurate Model Refrigerator/Insulated Cars group. He comments: PFE class R-30-2 ice bunker reefer. Circa early 1920s. Built from a Westerfield kit. My Notes: The prototype was in Series 1701-4600. There were 2,900 R-30-2 reefers built by AC&F in 1907. These cars had had wood frame superstructures, wood sheathing and steel underframes. A discussion with several photos begins on Page 69 of the PFE book. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Train Of New Santa Fe Reefers A photo from Classic Trains magazine. Description: A Santa Fe 4-8-4 powers a long string of new SFRD reefers near Winslow, Ariz., in the mid-1940s. Santa Fe Railway photo. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Wrapping & Packing Oranges In Redlands A photo from the Facebook All About Redlands group. Possibly the Redlands Mutual Orange Company. Bob Chaparro Moderator